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“We’re talking serious business: barbed wire, machine-gun towers and a 300-pound guy with no neck and a cowboy hat saying, ‘Hey rock star, git over here, boy.’”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2023
To “I Feel Pretty”: I bought Twitter, don’t be bitter, I will git ’er much fitter, you’ll see I’m no quitter — there’s no leader more steadfast than me!
From Washington Post ● Jun. 23, 2022
After fires, illness and neighbor squabbles, the book ends with the youngest Slater boy, Shoestring, wanting “to git book-larnin’.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2021
Parliament's website lists examples of words that might be considered offensive, including "stoolpigeon", "blackguard", "coward", "git", "guttersnipe", "hooligan" and "rat".
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2019
“You looks like a hant. You git in bed and I’ll fix you a toddy and see kin you sleep. I bet you aint had a full night’s sleep since you lef.”
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
We had half of our gits wrapped and bagged and ready to go out the door.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 30, 2023
PwC has hit back at comments by Lord Alan Sugar in which he branded its staff "lazy gits", after the accountancy giant said workers could take Friday afternoons off over summer.
From BBC ● May 10, 2022
Of course, for the old gits among us, it’s impossible to conceive of Everton in the FA Cup without immediately conceiving on 1985’s seminal Wogan appearance.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 20, 2022
So if you do survive into old age, you may well be happier because the miserable gits who used to make you unhappy during your middle years will have popped off.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 3, 2016
"Sure did. That Brother Clifton goes wild when he gits mad . . . But what do you think of my idea?"
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
